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TEXAS On the first day of registration of same-sex partners by National Guard units nationwide, Texas refused to register Butler. Her wife, Chedville, is a nurse in the Texas National Guard. Texas’ refusal to register same-sex partners of military personnel ended last week when the state, under threat of a lawsuit by Butler and the [...]

Sequestration and other cuts may affect budgets of AIDS organizations that are seeing more clients and increased demand for services Lisa keen | Keen News Service More than 9,000 people with HIV were on a waiting list for federal assistance in buying their medications in August 2011. On Monday, President Obama announced that, as of [...]

Nation’s high court rejects two gay-interest cases, but legal analysts expect court to hear others, even one on state marriage bans LISA KEEN | Keen News Service The U.S. Supreme Court rejected this week reviews of two lower court decisions of some interest to LGBT legal activists. But some gay-related cases could be on [...]

Men fighting to list husbands on death certificates join with other same-sex couples in similar cases AMANDA LEE MYERS | Associated Press CINCINNATI — A lawsuit seeking to have the out-of-state marriages of two gay Ohio couples recognized on death certificates has been expanded to include all similarly situated couples, despite a statewide ban on [...]

Same-sex couples challenge Neb. law banning gay foster parents LINCOLN, Neb. — Three same-sex couples plan to sue Nebraska because they say the state won’t allow them to become foster parents. The American Civil Liberties Union plans to hold a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss the lawsuit it plans to file on behalf of [...]

GILLIAN FLACCUS | Associated Press Jubilant gay and lesbian couples flocked to city halls and county courthouses across California to wed with pets, siblings and kids in tow as same-sex marriages resumed across the state following a five-year legal hiatus. Monday was the first chance for all but a handful of the state’s same-sex couples [...]